Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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YMSM 098
Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.50a-b
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 45.7 x 67.5 cm (18 x 26 1/2")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: '71'
Frame: Grau-style, American, after 1904

Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames

Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames is signed and inscribed '71' and dates from 1871. 1

Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames, Freer Gallery of Art
Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames, Freer Gallery of Art

It was probably first exhibited in the following year, in the Fifth Exhibition of the Society of French Artists [Winter Exhibition], Deschamps Gallery, London, 1872 (cat. no. 122).

Notes:

1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 98).

Last updated: 31st December 2020 by Margaret